Category: Automattic

After eight years, I’ve decided to hang up my CEO hat and ask Matt to take over the job. What an amazing ride it’s been! I met Matt, Automattic’s eventual founder, almost ten years ago, in the summer of 2004. We were introduced by Om Malik and immediately hit it off. I forget when the…

I just got back from an exhilarating, week long Automattic company meetup in San Diego. We’ve now done 9 full company meetups over the last 6 years (plus dozens of smaller team ones), and I wanted to write down some tips on how to run a company meetup while it’s fresh in my mind: 1.…

Forbes has a great article about Automattic, telling the story all the way from the beginning of WordPress through the founding and growth of Automattic. And here’s Matt’s reaction to it talking about the future of work.

There were two articles published today about Automattic and our distributed setup: One in Business Week the other in the Wall Street Journal.

Last night, we crossed the 500M mark for monthly unique visitors to the Automattic network: The Automattic network consists of WordPress.com, Polldaddy, IntenseDebate, and Gravatar, as tracked by Quantcast (the bump you see in November is when we started tracking Polldaddy, ID, Gravatar, and WordPress.com Stats users in addition to WordPress.com visitors). 500M uniques is…

Snapshots from Springfield Castle in Ireland, scene of the 2010 Polldaddy team meetup: A couple of the original Polldaddies in the wild:

Microsoft partners with Automattic to make WordPress.com the default blogging platform for Windows Live. WordPress.com news blog. Windows Live news blog. I took this snapshot while waiting to go on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to announce the news:

Swiss TV station Tele Zueri featured me in a news story about San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. It was quite the out of body experience to be followed around by a video camera for the day, but Stefan Kaufmann (the reporter) got me to feel comfortable and enjoy myself after a little while.…

The more time I spend around web services, the more I see 2% conversion rates show up all over the place. About 2% of people who visit a WordPress.com blog leave a comment. 2% click on “related articles” below a blog post. 2% of Evernote users buy their premium service. Same with 2% of Box.net…

I’m intrigued by Local Motors, a new car company that crowd sources the design of their cars and plans to build them at local micro-factories. This is the first car they’ll build:

I wonder why Diane sent me this post? For the record: I have never worn white sports socks with leather shoes.

Mike Arrington is on a tear with some great posts exposing the dark underbelly of advertising on social networks.

Birthday wishlist of an 11 year old: Mini computer Gravity defying boots 16 GB SD card Songs for mp3 player Really really really comfy pillow More songs for mp3 player New socks that fit (not pink like mom gets) More songs for mp3 player Lots of wii games (good games) Dirt bike (big engine)

The office of the San Francisco mayor has switched to WordPress.